You can't escape the influence of architectural history..

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist t….

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form..

One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and….

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved..

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns..

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets..

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time..

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship..

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture ….

Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure a….

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow..

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social c….

For me [ Giovanni Lorenzo ] Bernini, [Francesco ] Borromini, and [Donato] Bramante have been as significant as Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Co….

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Archi….

An important work of architecture will create polemics..

To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I want….

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment..

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual ….

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do..

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality..